Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261672AbVEJPUu (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 11:20:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261677AbVEJPRw (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 11:17:52 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:42757 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261684AbVEJPPG (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 11:15:06 -0400 Message-Id: <200505101514.j4AFEhGO010837@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: Peter Foldiak Cc: Hans Reiser , sean.mcgrath@propylon.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: file as a directory In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 May 2005 10:39:23 BST." <1115717961.3711.56.camel@grape.st-and.ac.uk> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <2c59f00304112205546349e88e@mail.gmail.com> <41A1FFFC.70507@hist.no> <41A21EAA.2090603@dbservice.com> <41A23496.505@namesys.com> <1101287762.1267.41.camel@pear.st-and.ac.uk> <1115717961.3711.56.camel@grape.st-and.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1115738064_8169P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 11:14:42 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1364 Lines: 35 --==_Exmh_1115738064_8169P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 10 May 2005 10:39:23 BST, Peter Foldiak said: > Back in November 2004, I suggested on the linux-kernel and reiserfs > lists that the Reiser4 architecture could allow us to abolish the > unnatural naming distinction between directories/files/parts-of-file > (i.e. to unify naming within-file-system and within-file naming) in an > efficient way. > I suggested that one way of doing that would be to extend XPath-like > selection syntax above the (XML) file level. I believe the consensus was that this needs to happen at the VFS layer, not the FS level. The next step would be designing an API for this - what would the VFS present to userspace, and in what way, and how would backward combatability be maintained? --==_Exmh_1115738064_8169P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFCgM/NcC3lWbTT17ARAh13AJ0YB5RGx5tqCgOpucKRQ1Pz3e0P8gCgypAJ KaJMBdl6h+wiBadvbyZw4tM= =F4G5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1115738064_8169P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/